Tagged: Al Jazeera

SYDNEY, Australia -- An Al-Jazeera reporter who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison returned home to Australia on Thursday, where he was greeted by friends and relieved family members who had tirelessly campaigned for his release.

CAIRO — Al Jazeera's Australian journalist Peter Greste, speaking a day after his release from prison in Egypt, says his freedom was something of a "rebirth" and that key to his well-being while incarcerated for more than a year was exercising, studying and meditating.

CAIRO -- Al-Jazeera English reporter Peter Greste left Egypt on Sunday after the president approved his deportation, but there's no word on jailed colleagues Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed.

"I understand that the ability of the Canadian government to help me is limited by the rules of diplomacy," he said through his lawyers Amal Clooney and Lorne Waldman on Thursday. "But I do believe that Prime Minister Harper could do more to obtain my release if he were to directly intervene in our case."

The case of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo ought to be resolved "sooner rather than later" but the matter is a complex one, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said during a visit to the city on Thursday.

CAIRO -- An Egyptian appeals court ordered a retrial Thursday in the case of three Al-Jazeera English journalists held for over a year, overturning the ruling in a case that ensnared the reporters in a wider conflict between Egypt and Qatar.

Egypt's president issued a new decree Wednesday granting him the power to deport foreign defendants convicted or accused of crimes, a move that could allow him to free imprisoned journalists from the Al-Jazeera English satellite news channel.

Though their battlefield tactics of sexual violence, crucifixions, mass executions and beheadings are shockingly crude, ISIS forces are also waging a very sophisticated public relations war. Here are 11 rules local journalists must follow if they wish to work in ISIS held territory in Iraq and Syria.